Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into agreeing to drop charges, and her carefully reasoned argument in front of a federal judge almost set Stork and Hagen free a month earlier. It will take her a few years before she gets dashing down pat, and sometimes she's a little over-organized, which can be dull. Caution can be carried too far; she seems convinced the press she defends is out to muddy her name, and consequently insists that if she says "good morning," it's off the record. She has the fundamentals, though, and the best teacher she could find to add some flash...
...dull, gray morning in Bucharest. Two citizens enter a district city hall to exchange perfunctory "Da's " as required by law. Switch to Technicolor. Tennis Ace Bjorn Borg, in a blue blazer, no headband, and his love of four years, Rumanian Pro Mariana Simionescu, step outside into the bright sunlight and a cheering crowd of 2,000. Among them are 50 members of the Rumanian National Tennis Federation, who raise flower-bedecked racquets in a ceremonial arch. Kiss, smile, applause. Exeunt the couple in a Swedish Saab. Scene 2-Religious Ceremony. An unruly mob awaits the Borgs' arrival...
TIME staff members who have covered earlier political conventions insist that, for journalists, there is no such thing as a dull one. Last week's 32nd Republican National Convention was no exception. The matter of a vice presidential nominee seemed the only speculative bit of business on the Nation section's advance story list. Yet for the top editors of TIME and Time Inc., for the 17 Nation editors, writers and reporter-researchers at the convention, and for the magazine's 13 correspondents and ten photographers present, the event became a pageant of sleepless nights and hectic...
Late in the afternoon, the Paratrooper is trucked with the others to barracks alongside the airfield at Fort Bragg. Here they will spend the night. But first their jumpmasters must check them in and assign them positions for the drop. It is a long, dull procedure, and the Paratrooper smiles when he thinks how much like a flock of sheep or a herd of cows they all are-passive, oblivious to the time and space they occupy, psychically removed. In their minds many of them are, like himself, already in the plane or stepping...
Indexation is ultimately an inflation medicine that has dangerous side effects. Because they somewhat dull the pain of higher prices, COLAs weaken the desire to fight inflation. But, despite the dangerous illusion that price rises no longer hurt, the inflation malady lingers...